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Presentations in the Cultures and Knowledge Workshop Series range across historical and disciplinary boundaries, and provide a major component of SIFK's inquiry into the process of knowledge formation and transmittal from antiquity to the present day. SIFK faculty, postdocs, fellows and guests present research-in-progress for real-time feedback from a broadly cross-disciplinary community of scholars. Presentations take the form of a 45-minute presentation followed by a lively 25 minute discussion, and are open to all members of the University of Chicago community.

Noon-1:20 PM via Zoom

Please see the events calendar https://sifk.uchicago.edu/events/category/15/Workshops/ to register. 

Monday, November 1

Of Types and Trees: Evolutionary Thought, Ancient DNA and Research on the Human Past

Hannah Moots 

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Monday, November 15

The Dog Years: A History of Beagle Science

Brad Bolman

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Monday, November 29

Fact Culture: Polling and the Politics of Objectivity

Tal Arbel

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How Jeff Bezos’ Space Launch Today Will Change Aerospace History

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With millions watching the meticulously stage-managed suborbital spaceflights by Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, it’s tempting to conjure the image of a new space race between rival companies.
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Four Things on Formations: Yan Slobodkin

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Manufactured Uncertainty and the Media History of Risk

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Four Things on Formations: Alex Campolo

May 10, 2021

A round-up of thought-provoking things from Alex Campolo, postdoctoral fellow at SIFK.
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Who Unearths the Past?: On the Work of The Dig

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Joe Stadolnik watches The Dig, and sheds light on an obscure excavator of the past unlikely to inspire a Netflix movie
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Covid-19 and the Long History of Racially Maldistributed Mortality

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Alexander Mazzaferro investigates America's long history of racial disparity and its impact on the nation's COVID-19 response.
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Knowing Uncertainty: How Science Fiction Helps us Make Sense of the Pandemic

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Anastasia Klimchynskaya draws parallels between Sci-Fi and our current world to show how literature can help us understand COVID-19 and our uncertain future.
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In Search of Plagues Past

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Margaret Carlyle looks to past pandemics to gain insight on COVID-19.
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Using Quantitative Models to Guide Policy Amid COVID-19 Uncertainty

April 24, 2020

Nobel Laureate and SIFK Faculty Member Lars Peter Hansen shares his thoughts on the global pandemic and using quantitative models to guide policy amid COVID-19 uncertainty
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The Limits of Empathy

April 20, 2020

Yan Slobodkin explores the space between empathy and justice.
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Flattening the Curve: Visualization and Pandemic Knowledge

April 01, 2020

SIFK Postdoc Alex Campolo breaks down how we look at pandemics like COVID-19